Oregon · Nonprofit
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS (Oregon) receives grants from 489 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,581,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($970,138). 252 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $9.6M
- Funders on record
- 489
- Grants received
- $6.6M
- Net assets
- $3.6M
What Paws for Purple Hearts does
Mission
Paws for Purple Hearts improves the lives of America's Warriors facing mobility challenges and trauma-related conditions such as PTSD and TBI by providing the highest quality assistance dogs and canine-assisted therapeutic programs; and by building public awareness about the important role dogs play in helping Warriors along the road to recovery.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
To offer therapeutic intervention for veterans and active-duty personnel by teaching those with ptsd to train service dogs for their comrades with combat-related disabilities. It is built upon the trust and time honored tradition of veterans helping veterans.
$8,573,216 spentof which $838,657 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $8,573,216.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $4.8M to $8.1M (+68%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 2% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Bonita Bergin
President & CEO
Board chair
Mark Quattrocchi
Chairperson
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 83 funders to 169 funders, grant income rose $167k → $1.1M.
37 of 489 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 47% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $1k from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest Amin Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS raised.
From the IRS filings of PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 489 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 15% of grant income, and it takes 12 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 12 funders to its left
51% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 14% · 2018 15% · 2019 17% · 2020 12% · 2021 13% · 2022 12% · 2023 14% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
30% of PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Oregon, across 48 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.1M arriving through sponsors registered in 23 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS's funding base is broadening — from 83 funders to 169 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 543 public benefit nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Oregon
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bergin College of Canine Studies · exempt
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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS?
- PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS (Oregon) receives grants from 489 organizations whose IRS filings report $6,581,412 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($970,138). 252 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS have?
- IRS filings report 489 organizations giving $6,581,412 in grants to PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS, 252 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $970,138 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Oregon. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 489 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing